Tag: William Tell
William Tell Swiss? Who Knew?
I sure didn’t. Five years ago I thought he was English. I mean all guys good with bows were English right? Who’s the kid you ask? That would be his son Walter. The story goes that after William Tell disrespected the local governor, Hermann Gessler, the evil man stood the young boy up in the town square and made Tell shoot an apple off his head. Later, our hero ambushes Gessler on a dark forest road and shoots him in the chest. Then I think everyone sings. At least that’s the version popularized by Friedrich Schiller in the early 1800’s. Here‘s the full play if you feel like some light...
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I’ve been to Switzerland twice and Austria once researching my new novel The Forest Knights, which I hope to self-publish in September 2011. So I’m going to do a series of posts on Switzerland. I took this picture while out hiking. It’s a storage shed for a farmer (maybe for hay or other food for livestock). Notice the legs made of rocks? On the top of each leg is a large, flat stone. I was told this keeps mice out of the storage shed because they can’t handle the overhang. Apparently Swiss mice have never seen Stallone in...
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